> Customize the Home screen

>>> One of the best things about the iPhone and iPad is the huge choice of apps, and over time you’ve no doubt built up a wide range of tools, which may be filling multiple Home screens on your device. But it’s simple to organize your icons to make things easier to use. You can move an icon on your Home screen by lightly holding a finger on it until you see the icons jiggling around on screen. Now just drag any of them to reposition them – to move one to a new screen, drag it to the left or right edge and hold there until the next screen slides in, then drag it to the location you want. When you’re in this mode, with the icons wiggling around, you’ll see that they all have an X icon in their top-left corner. You can tap this to delete an app from your phone (a confirmation will pop up so you can back out if you’ve made a mistake). Apps deleted like this, including those from Apple, can always be reinstalled from the App Store.

You can group apps into a folder to make them easier to find, or to save Home screen space. Hold a finger on one to enter the rearrangement mode, then drag it directly on top of another app and hold it there for a moment. A new square will cover the screen, showing the icon for the other app. Let go of the app you’re dragging to deposit it in this new folder. The folder will have a name based on what kinds of apps are in it. You can tap the name to change it; just type in the new one – it can include emoji! You can even add folders to the Dock at the bottom.